Lakshminath Bezbarua was one of the three most significant scholars of the Jonaki era who may truly be regarded as a harbinger of modernity to Assamese literature in the 19th century. A poet, a story writer, a novelist, a dramatist, a critic, a journalist, a children litterateur, a biographer, a writer of autobiography, an editor, an essayist, a compiler of innumerable Assamese folk tales, Bezbarua possessed a rare combination of different skills. Behind the making of this multi-faceted personality of Bezbarua there was a keen sense of nationalism.